Breaking WaPo: Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Monsters

NEW: Black voters in Mississippi are on the brink of a major victory — a federal judge ordered the state to redraw its state supreme court districts to ensure greater Black representation. But GOP lawmakers are dragging their feet for now, looking toward SCOTUS & its Callais order to "save" them:

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead. His family was not notified of his release. Police are investigating.

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The President continues to threaten to jail me. My job is to stand up for the people of Illinois and stand in the way of him harming them.

“Mexico paid for the wall. China is paying for my tariffs. I’m 6’4”, 185 lbs. Everyone is getting a dividend check.”

I'm heading to the Senate floor in a few moments to lay out the detailed story of ICE abuse - teargassing schools, murdering American citizens with impunity, disappearing legal immigrants. And why we should not fund ICE until they stop terrorizing our communities.

Oz announced he is taking away $259,000,000 in funding for pregnant women, seniors, people with disabilities, and children. Vance said he will "take the social safety net" away from all Minnesotans. The retribution campaign continues. Do Republicans support this attack on MN's most vulnerable?

Klobuchar: "One of the things that most struck me about this State of the Union is that he spent only 2.9 minutes talking about affordability out of an hour and 47 minute speech, and 3.9 minutes talking about healthcare. These are the number one issues on the minds of people."

Susan George passed away in Paris on February 14 at the age of 91. Susan was one of the most important figures in denouncing capitalism over the last 50 years. We mourn the loss of a colleague, ally, and leader. Rest in peace.

The Cuban Embassy says a Florida-registered speedboat entered Cuban waters this morning and allegedly opened fire on Cuban border guards who approached it, injuring the commander of the Cuban vessel. Cuba says four people on the U.S. boat were killed and six others aboard it were injured.

NEW: Fulton County officials are probing whether an FBI agent intentionally misled a judge to raid Fulton County’s main election hub. If left unchecked, county officials argue that the agent's suspect claims could hand the Justice Department untold powers to seize election-related records anywhere.

Breaking: Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.

NYT confirms MS NOW: The Epstein files released by the Trump Justice Department failed to include some key materials — FBI memos summarizing interviews — related to a woman who said she had been sexually assaulted by both Trump and Epstein decades earlier, when she was a minor.

In a new WaPo-ABC poll, 79% of Democrats say they are certain to vote in November, compared to 65% of Republicans. The largest gap in that question since 2006. (You're basically seeing exactly this in special election after special election.) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BREAKING MS NOW: @lawofruby reports DOJ directed reviewers to flag FBI interview memos before it produced the latest Epstein files. That follows MS NOW reporting that DOJ appears to have withheld memos on three interviews with a woman who accused Epstein and Trump of assault.

Maryland is suing the Trump admin to stop the construction of an immigration detention facility in the state. Maryland AG Anthony Brown says in the complaint that DHS violated federal law by purchasing a warehouse in the state without an environmental review and without public input.

Breaking: Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and professor, just announced that he was resigning as a co-director of a flagship neuroscience institute at Columbia University because of his friendship with Jeffery Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team

Gov. Abigail Spanberger is very, very good at this.

The president — who avoided military draft — just said he's "always wanted" to be awarded the congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration.

BREAKING: MEIDASTOUCH PEOPLE’S STATE OF THE UNION HITS 1 MILLION VIEWS IN FIRST 80 MINUTES.

Shoutout to everyone who says this was going to be a unity speech 🙄

Don’t let Donald Trump fool you tonight.

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

I don’t say this as a joke or a drill, but I hope everyone who follows elections has cleared up next Tuesday night because it’s one of the biggest election nights of the year (More on the what and why tomorrow.)

After huge local pushback and protest, there will be NO massive trump prison camp in Merrimack New Hampshire: www.wmur.com/article/ice-...

when the justice department reveals itself to be untrustworthy, then surprise! the courts no longer trust the justice department: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Breaking WaPo: A federal judge in Virginia rejected the Justice Department's request to search through a Washington Post reporter's electronic devices as part of a national security leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search.

DHS posted this for Romulus, MI. "ICE proposes to acquire and retrofit the existing warehouse facility at 7525 Cogswell Street [...] for use as a Detention Processing Center." "Any individual, group, or agency wishing to comment on the project may do so via email at [email protected]."

There's a lot going on. But it deserves FAR MORE ATTENTION that Whiskey Pete is going to seize the means of AI production so he can 1) engage in mass surveillance of Americans and 2) shoot without human intervention. Dystopias this bad would be deemed unrealistic. www.axios.com/2026/02/24/a...

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MAGA, yall good with mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons with no humans in the OODA loop?

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

4 Minnesota guys

I’d boycott it just for this alone.

If the suspect’s family didn’t turn him in, he’d probably still be on the loose thanks to Keystone Kash.

The Coast Guard has opened an internal investigation after a hand-drawn swastika appeared at its primary recruit training center, prompting a swift response from its top admiral, who faced intense scrutiny after the service temporarily downgraded the hate symbol in its workplace harassment manual.

CNN/SSRS poll:  Trump's approval among independents sits at just 26%, a new low across both terms. Just 32% of Americans now say that Trump has had the right priorities. 68% say he hasn't paid enough attention to the country's most important problems.

FLAG: Trump-related files are missing from DOJ's Epstein release. There's at least one witness for whom three 2019 FBI interviews are missing. That woman is the same person who, in a 2025 FBI presentation, is identified to have accused Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15.

MORE: The Justice Department has withheld notes and memos reflecting FBI interviews from its release of the Epstein files, including interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor. tinyurl.com/29sb5tjd

I have spoken to two people now who have told me that only part of their FBI interviews are in the released files, and the parts of their interviews that are missing include mentions of Trump. 1/

Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫

A judge in AL, Trump appointee Corey Maze, becomes the latest of 33 judges to side with ICE's mandatory detention policy. He says a man in the US for 27 years, with 6 U.S. citizen kids, has no more due process right than someone who just crossed the border. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When your picture hangs outside the building, they let you do it. @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/e...

Mathematician & NASA 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 Katherine Johnson died #OTD in 2020. She was instrumental in the success of the first US manned spaceflights, calculating complex trajectories enabling humans to reach orbit & land on the moon. Her story was told in 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 (book/movie). #WomenInSTEM #BHM

Remember it's Election Day tomorrow. Democrats are defending important state House seats in Maine and Pennsylvania — in both cases, in chambers where their margins are as close as it gets, and they can't afford to lose either seat. Details in here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

LONDON (AP) — UK police say former ambassador Peter Mandelson has been released on bail after arrest in Epstein files misconduct probe.